Today in Area 2000, Max, Morgan, Vicki, Lydia, Mark, Kit, and Jaidee were present. Jaidee excavated fill 2740 to find cut -2739 while Max, and Morgan continued exposing the possible ossuary. In addition to more bones, they discovered a few pieces of chain, but it is unclear what the chain belongs to. Kit, Vicki, Mark, and Lydia cleaned in the morning, with some help from Courtney. In the afternoon, Mark and Jaidee began to excavate fill 2743, which may be a grave. Vicki, Kit, and Lydia began to excavate a trench in the afternoon, but found a medieval era body (2745) in the fill about half of a meter down. While Vicki and Kit worked to expose the body, Lydia moved to clean and expose the bones in a nearby unit.

Group 1: Began excavating the remaining portion in the west section of the burial. Exposed an articulated right humerus, scapula and three ribs from a juvenille. The humerus, disappeared under the right ilium of the second individual in the burial. This indicates that the remains belong to the first individual, of which, has intact, articualted lower limbs, and meets the end cut of the burial to the East. Further excavtion of the burial to the North, began to reveal the articulated remains of a right hand, ulna, radius, femur, ilium,patella and tibia. Quick search, soon revealed an intact left femur and tibia. Interestingly, the remains belong to an adult, and considering the placement in the burial, the cut that intersects the original burial (and therefore the other two skeletons), most probably is associated with this adult skeleton. The upper portion of the skeleton, however, continues under the Western wall of the site. This indicates, that all three individuals are older then the 12th centuary wall. The burial was therefore expanded to the West, in the hopes of excavating the upper portion of the adult skeleton and possibly the skulls of the two juvenille skeletons.

Group 2: Today we continued to expose the human remians in our grave. We had to expand the wall further east in order to fully expose the rest of the tibia, fibula, and what was there of the foot. It ended up being cut by the bell oven in two seperate places. We had to cut slightly into it in order to fully expose the right femur that was cut and the left foot. We will continue to finish exposing it and begin removal tomorrow.

Group 3: Today I scrapped an area to expose the possible grave. I scrapped the area most of the day until I started exposing metatarsals and tarsals. Finally I had found the skeleton. The rest of the day I exposed both tibias, patellas, the right fibula and the left carpals and metacarpals. Tomorrow we will continue to expose the rest of the skeleton.

Group 4: USK 3716 Student was advised to assist in exposing lower partial human remains (pelvis to feet). A portion of a barrier was cut to possibly expose more human bones, however none were found at this time.

Group 5: We continued excavating the thorax of the skeleton and determined the if there is any more to the skeleton, it is within the stone wall. We took more photos and then started to remove the bones. The skeleton includes both feet, the left fibula, both femurs and right patella, complete pelvis, hands, right arm, and lumbar vertebrae. So far we've removed the feet and the fibula, and will continue tomorrow.

Group 6: Supervisor assigned me a portion of our area to scrape in order to delimit the cut of a possible grave. Once I cleaned and scraped, I exposed a supposed new layer that apparently looks like the fill of a burial. After providing a photogrphic documentation of the new layer and recording its position in the area, I began to excavate the fill, trying to find the level where the bones are positioned: I was able to expose a tarsal bone and a fibula that look in connection with each other.

On this the 11th day of the field school, area 5,000 was missing a single member in the osteology lab. To begin, the remaining members of the crew cleaned sections B and C. Once the cleaning was completed, section C was covered, as it not likely to be excavated in the near future, and the integrity of the bell oven was at risk. After section C was covered, excavations were commenced on the grave, the hut floor feature, the east facing profiles of the north-south trending wall in the center of the site, the area beneath the large foundation stone uncovered in a previous season, and the productive post hole excavation from Friday was completed. Excavation on the grave produced no additional human remains. The excavation of the hut floor feature determined that there were two internal features, one of which was excavated. This excavation produced no artifacts. The excavation of the wall profile produced slag related to either copper or a copper alloy based on the color. In addition, the previous finding about the shallow deposition of the wall was substantiated across a large portion of the wall. The excavation of the large foundation stone began with the removal of the stone itself. This revealed an alignment of smaller stone upon which the larger stone sat. These were also removed, and the rest of the fill was excavated produced no additional artifacts. The excavation of the productive hole unearthed faunal remains, a clear glass fragment, charred wood fragments, and many ceramic artifacts, including a base and a lip fragment.

Today, we continued removing context 6098 in order to uncover the new context fillings and cuts. One interesting find was a lithic tomb, with color and fill differences. The main context that we are looking for is darker brown with orange flecks and a higher sand content, which is softer and easier to trowel. The fillings mostly contain pebbles, building brick, and charcoal that suggest an old road. One of our members finished clean troweling and brushing the Western Enlargement, which encompasses a stone wall and stones that may be remains of a floor or a lithic tomb.